war-ravaged syria is sounding an alarm over growing food shortages. bread is essential to the diet. 70% of their bread needs are not being met. president as said is assad deliberately targeting the food chain targeting delivery vans, sending up food prices. we have the former ambassador to nato robert hunter. welcome to the show, ambassador hunter. we appreciate your time here. >> good to be with you. melissa: i thought a lot of facts were disturbing and shocking not more so than anything else going on in syria. land is not being farmed because of shell fire. there is lack of fertilizer. tanks have deliberately destroyed the irrigation canals and the army is stopping workers from getting to the land to farm it. so obviously this is extremely deliberate. >> yeah. this is a full-blown civil war being conducted by the government side by one of the more brutal regimes we've seen in the middle east, you know, over the last 30 or 40 years. the father of the current president, for example, gassed an entire village and wiped them out about 35 years ago. so th